§ 16-24. Acts constituting nuisances.

It shall be a public nuisance to:

(1)

Cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected or deposited or to remain in any place, to the prejudice of others;

(2)

Throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any dead animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway;

(3)

Corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others;

(4)

Obstruct or impede, without legal authority, the passage of any navigable river or waters;

(5)

Obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places and ways to burying places;

(6)

Keep or store explosives, paper, rags, hay or other combustible material in such quantity, and in such place as to constitute a hazard to persons or property in the vicinity thereof, or in violation of any state law or regulation now or hereafter in force;

(7)

Willfully or maliciously damage or destroy any partition fence of another person lawfully erected or maintained;

(8)

Erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, smoke, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public;

(9)

Advertise wares or occupation by painting notices of the same on, or affixing them to fences or other private property, or on rocks or other natural objects, without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or other public place, without permission of the proper authorities;

(10)

Permit any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal or any other purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas, to remain unplugged, after such well is no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled;

(11)

Construct or operate any salt water pit or oil field refuse pit, commonly called a "burn out pit," so that salt water, brine or oil field refuse or other waste liquids may escape therefrom in any manner except by the evaporation of such salt water or brine or by the burning of such oil field waste or refuse;

(12)

Permit concrete bases, discarded machinery and materials to remain around any oil or gas well, or to fail to fill any holes, cellars, slush pits and other excavations made in connection with any such well or to restore the surface of the lands surrounding any such well to its condition before the drilling of any such well, upon abandonment of any such oil or gas well;

(13)

Permit any salt water, oil, gas or other wastes from any well drilled for oil, gas or exploratory purposes to escape to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam, or into any underground fresh water supply, or from one underground stratum to another;

(14)

Harass, intimidate or threaten any person who is about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or other real property or is about to buy or lease or has bought or leased a residence or other real property, when the harassment, intimidation or threat relates to a person's attempt to sell, buy or lease a residence, or other real property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase or lease of a residence or other real property.

(15)

The keeping of animals under such conditions as would cause stench and or obnoxious odors, which migrate to neighboring property.

(16)

The raking, placing or blowing of grass clippings into the streets and gutters of any public street or public sidewalk.

(1947 Rev. Ords., § 8-1; Ord. No. 929, 1-26-09; Ord. No. 943, 9-21-09; Ord. No. 1000, 11-12-13)

State law reference

Public nuisances, acts constituting, Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 100½, § 26.